My friend's brother is a property lawyer. I hope that I will receive mate’s pricing for conveyancing, However if that does not come through, what kind of fees would I typically be looking at for conveyancing in Hall Green?

You should contrast pricing. Do use our search tool on this page. Whilst prices may be different but service levels do differ between property lawyers as is the case with most professions.

Finally the sale completed on my house in Hall Green last July but my buyer keeps texting every few hours to say her lawyer needs to hear from mine. What should have happened now that I have sold?

Post completion of your sale your lawyer should deliver the transfer documentation and all supplemental paperwork to the buyer’s conveyancer. Where appropriate, your solicitor should also evidence that the mortgage has been redeemed to the purchasers conveyancers. There is unlikely to be post completion tasks just for conveyancing in Hall Green.

2 months have elapsed following my purchase conveyancing in Hall Green completed. I have checked the Land Registry website which shows that I paid £200,000 when infact I paid £160,000. Why the discrepancy?

The price paid figure is taken from the application to register the purchase. It is the figure included in the Transfer (the legal deed which transfers the residence from one person to the other) and referred to as the 'consideration' or purchase price. You can report an error in the price paid figure using the LR online form. In most cases errors result from typos so at first glance the figure. Do report it so they can double check and advise.

I am looking for a leasehold apartment up to £195,000 and identified one close by in Hall Green I like with amenity areas and railway links in the vicinity, however it only has 52 years on the lease. There is not much else in Hall Green suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error buying a lease with such few years left?

If you need a mortgage the shortness of the lease may be an issue. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the property for at least twenty four months you could ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. An additional ninety years can be extended on to the current lease with a zero ground rent applied. You should speak to your conveyancing lawyer about this.

We are in the process of a leasehold sale of a flat in Hall Green. Conveyancing is fine but we are being charged a fortune from the freeholder. So far we have issued a cheque for £225 for a leasehold management information and then a further £118 for responses to questions raised by the buyers conveyancer.

Neither you or your conveyancer will have any impact over the extent of the charges for this information however the typical costs for the information for Hall Green leasehold property is £355. When it comes to Hall Green conveyancing sales it is conventional for the seller to pay for these costs. The freeholder or their agents are not duty bound to address these questions although many will agree to do so - albeit often at high prices disproportionate to the work involved. Unfortunately there is no legislation that requires set charges for administrative tasks. Nor is there any set time limit by which they are duty bound to issue the information.